EU Universe Awareness is delighted to welcome a new partner to the Space Scoop team, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT). Space Scoop is our astronomy news service, that aims to capture the imagination of children using the latest discoveries about our awe-inspiring Universe, making it a great stepping-stone for introducing youngsters to science and technology.
The resource was launched in February 2011 in partnership with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Since then a number of organisation have joined the Space Scoop family: the European Space Agency (ESA), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, Europlanet, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), ASTRON, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) have joined the Space Scoop family. The new partners have increased the number of Space Scoops that are published on the EU-UNAWE website each week and it has grown into the biggest and best resource for astronomy news for children, with releases now available in 25 different languages!
LCOGT is working on building up a global network of around 40 robotic telescopes located at 7 sites around the Earth, for scientific and educational use. There are currently 11 telescopes in the network. The spacing between these sites in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres allow for continuous observations of any astronomical object in the sky. The core LCOGT areas of scientific interest are exciting and dynamic phenomena including extrasolar planets, supernovae and comets but they also let professional astronomers develop their own research programmes using their telescopes; which, with this new partnership will provide many exciting new science stories.
You can read the first LCOGT Space Scoop here.
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